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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS. -CH. 273 -JULY 3, 1941 tion by such agency during the fiscal year 1942 and shall not be supplemented by funds from any source. OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT For all expenses necessary, in the discretion of the President, to enable the Office for Emergency Management, established in the Executive Office of the President by administrative orders of the President, dated May 25, 1940, and January 7, 1941 (Federal Regis- ter, June 4, 1940, and January 9, 1941), and subordinate or related bodies in the work of national defense, to carry out (1) the functions and activities during the fiscal year 1942 for the performance of which they received allocations of funds from the appropriations "Emergency Fund for the President" contained in the Military Appro- priation Act, 1941, and the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1941; (2) the functions and activities provided for under the heading "Council of National Defense" in the First Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1941; and (3) such other functions and activities as may be prescribed by the President in connection with the work of national defense; which expenses may include all the objects for which and methods by which said emer- gency funds and funds available to said Council of National Defense were and are available and expendable; actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $25 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses, of members of the National Defense Mediation Board serving while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States; not to exceed $100,000 for temporary employ- ment of persons by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil-service laws or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; entertainment of officials and others of other American republics; fiscal year 1942, $36,500,000: Provided, That, subject to the approval of the President, compensation may be paid to the head of one office, created within the Office for Emergency Management by the Presi- dent, at a rate per annum exceeding $9,000 but not exceeding $12,000: Provided further, That, of the moneys from this appropriation made available to the Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics, not to exceed $1,600,000 shall be available for the purpose of furthering national defense and strength- ening the bonds between the United States and the other American republics by (1) grants to governmental and private nonprofit institu- tions and facilities in the United States and the other American republics, (2) the free distribution of publications, and (3) such other gratuitous assistance as he deems desirable, in the fields of arts and sciences, education and travel, the radio, the press, and the cinema: Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available, in the discretion of the Presi- dent, for the employment of experts, special advisers, and other per- sons who are not citizens of the United States: Provided further, That said appropriation shall be available for reimbursement of the Federal Reserve Bank System for the performance of such of the above services as may be required: Provided further, That said appropriation shall be available for allocation or transfer to other departments or agencies of the Government for the performance by them of any of the functions or activities for which this appropria- tion is made: Provided further, That in addition to the amounts so allocated from this appropriation to said Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations, he is authorized to enter into contracts in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000 during the fiscal year 1942 for carrying out the purposes of said allocations. 543 Post, pp. 747, 818, 830. Administrative ex- penses. 5 F. R.2109;6F. R. 192. 54 Stat. 377, 297. 54 Stat. 599. National Defense Mediation Board, ex- penses. 7F.R.238. Temporary employ- ees. 42 Stat. 1488 . 5UI.8.C. § 661-674. Post, p. 613. Provisos. Compensation of head of one office. Cooperation, etc., with American re- publics. Post, p. 818. Employment of alien experts, advisers, etc. Federal Reserve Bank System, reim- bursement. Allocation, etc., of funds. Coordinatorof Com- mercial and Cultural Relations. Contract authbora- tion

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